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The Silva Mind Control Method for Getting Help from Your Other Side
This book teaches people to utilize the enormous power of the brain's creative right side, and learn to strengthen their natural insight, banish negative thoughts, improve relationships, get rid of fatigue and stress, and much more. Original.
252 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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José Silva
216 books218 followersJose Silva's life is more than a great American success story. It has transcended time and space to become one of the world's all time great success stories.
Orphaned at age 4, he never attended school as a student; yet the reading and research that he undertook to help his own children, unlocked secrets of the mind and human potential that had remained hidden for thousands of years.
Jose Silva made a giant advancement in the 1960's when he became the first scientist to develop a method that allows everybody to use the powerful alpha brainwave level with conscious awareness, and allowed us to demonstrate to ourselves how consciousness connects us all.
This integrated our body-mind functioning and launched a huge consciousness expansion industry with thousands of knock offs of Silva Mind Control.
But he knew there was something more. In 1998 he gave the world the UltraMind ESP System, a new course that takes consciousness expansion beyond the limits of physics, into the spiritual dimension, and helps you to lead a more successful and meaningful life.
"Remember," he told us, "the reason we were given psychic ability is so we can use it to communicate with higher intelligence to find out what to do and how to do it successfully."
The UltraMind ESP System includes a brand new scientifically researched and proven technique to do just that: the MentalVideo.
The MentalVideo takes the next step in the evolution of consciousness by empowering you to use the Delta brain wave level purposefully and deliberately so you can communicate reliably with higher intelligence in the spiritual dimension.
This man with no formal schooling wrote the book on mind development - in fact, he's had more than a dozen books published by major publishers, in two dozen languages.
While Jose Silva may have moved on to new assignments, his work is still going strong in live seminars, books, and convenient home study courses.
Orphaned at age 4, he never attended school as a student; yet the reading and research that he undertook to help his own children, unlocked secrets of the mind and human potential that had remained hidden for thousands of years.
Jose Silva made a giant advancement in the 1960's when he became the first scientist to develop a method that allows everybody to use the powerful alpha brainwave level with conscious awareness, and allowed us to demonstrate to ourselves how consciousness connects us all.
This integrated our body-mind functioning and launched a huge consciousness expansion industry with thousands of knock offs of Silva Mind Control.
But he knew there was something more. In 1998 he gave the world the UltraMind ESP System, a new course that takes consciousness expansion beyond the limits of physics, into the spiritual dimension, and helps you to lead a more successful and meaningful life.
"Remember," he told us, "the reason we were given psychic ability is so we can use it to communicate with higher intelligence to find out what to do and how to do it successfully."
The UltraMind ESP System includes a brand new scientifically researched and proven technique to do just that: the MentalVideo.
The MentalVideo takes the next step in the evolution of consciousness by empowering you to use the Delta brain wave level purposefully and deliberately so you can communicate reliably with higher intelligence in the spiritual dimension.
This man with no formal schooling wrote the book on mind development - in fact, he's had more than a dozen books published by major publishers, in two dozen languages.
While Jose Silva may have moved on to new assignments, his work is still going strong in live seminars, books, and convenient home study courses.
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October 13, 2014
The Silva Method is the famous transformational method, whereby we learn to go to a deep meditational state, Alpha, thereby activating the right side of our brain, and by means of visualization/our imagination create the life we desire.
The best, of course, is to take a Silva course, or courses, but I found this book to be extremely readable and helpful.
I took many courses, and read the books, many moons ago. On re-reading this book, I see how the late José Silva was a man way ahead of his time, and in fact a highly developed being and a genius.
José terms this help from the other side, or from God, our “invisible means of support”.
Even back then he knew that the present age is “a period of awakening, of expanded consciousness”. José’s research, courses and books have enabled many millions of people throughout the world to expand their consciousness.
“The Silva Method is a way of relaxing the body and the mind and then using the slowed-down brain-wave frequency and the stepped-up right brain activity to produce some positive result.”
Picturing mentally, that is, using visualization and imagination, is a right-brain activity, and the right brain is “connected” to the other side. José tells us that our mental computer is then connected to a larger computer, and our need is heard, and then filled.
We learn how to count ourselves down into the Alpha state, where our brain waves vibrate between 7 and 14 cycles per second, and are given a series of exercises, whereby we gradually learn to do more and more mental programming.
We are taught to cancel out worry and replace it with positive, solution-oriented thinking. We learn how to programme for dreams that can help us find solutions to our problems.
We pick two counsellors, one male and one female, whom we can consult when engaged in our healing work. These counsellors are in contact with what José terms “Higher Intelligence”, and can answer all our questions. We heal both ourselves and others.
José also teaches us how to programme ourselves to obtain a deeper state of awareness by merely putting the thumb and first two fingers together (the Three Fingers Technique), so we can immediately access Alpha in a waking, Beta, state, when we need to solve pressing problems here and now.
I remember once, years ago, when hurrying from the train and having only a few minutes in which to catch a bus, I had at the same time to buy something necessary from the station kiosk. I came running towards the kiosk, saw there was a long queue there, and placed my fingers in the required position, repeating mentally “Let the queue spread, so I get to be first”. (I know it sounds selfish, but I really needed to buy the item and at the same time catch the bus.) Suddenly, those in the queue seemed to lose focus, some left it, some apparently decided they needed to buy something more and went to get it, and others just turned away slightly. I ran in, and was served first. This technique is really wonderfully helpful, when you’re in a rush or a critical situation.
The book contains chapters on solving people problems, health problems, money problems and complicated problems.
We are taught the invaluable tool of using subjective communication. This is communication between yourself and another party when in Alpha. You relax and imagine you see the person and hold a conversation with him/her in a loving way that suggests a solution to some mutual problem. This communication goes via the sender’s superconscious mind to the receiver’s conscious mind.
I have used subjective communication many times with success, and have also used it successfully when wanting a loan from my bank, which had previously been denied me (even though this was not a “mutual problem”),
You can use subjective communication with your spouse, children, parents, in-laws, employer, fellow workers, law enforcers or friends. Remember to communicate in a loving way.
We learn an important technique called the Glass of Water Technique, which can be used mostly for people problems.
What I have here presented are some of the basic precepts and techniques dealt with in the book. But it contains much, much more than these.
I highly recommend that you read the book, which is clearly and simply written and very readable. José includes several fascinating success stories from his own life and experience, and it is thus in no way a dull book.
The best, of course, is to take a Silva course, or courses, but I found this book to be extremely readable and helpful.
I took many courses, and read the books, many moons ago. On re-reading this book, I see how the late José Silva was a man way ahead of his time, and in fact a highly developed being and a genius.
José terms this help from the other side, or from God, our “invisible means of support”.
Even back then he knew that the present age is “a period of awakening, of expanded consciousness”. José’s research, courses and books have enabled many millions of people throughout the world to expand their consciousness.
“The Silva Method is a way of relaxing the body and the mind and then using the slowed-down brain-wave frequency and the stepped-up right brain activity to produce some positive result.”
Picturing mentally, that is, using visualization and imagination, is a right-brain activity, and the right brain is “connected” to the other side. José tells us that our mental computer is then connected to a larger computer, and our need is heard, and then filled.
We learn how to count ourselves down into the Alpha state, where our brain waves vibrate between 7 and 14 cycles per second, and are given a series of exercises, whereby we gradually learn to do more and more mental programming.
We are taught to cancel out worry and replace it with positive, solution-oriented thinking. We learn how to programme for dreams that can help us find solutions to our problems.
We pick two counsellors, one male and one female, whom we can consult when engaged in our healing work. These counsellors are in contact with what José terms “Higher Intelligence”, and can answer all our questions. We heal both ourselves and others.
José also teaches us how to programme ourselves to obtain a deeper state of awareness by merely putting the thumb and first two fingers together (the Three Fingers Technique), so we can immediately access Alpha in a waking, Beta, state, when we need to solve pressing problems here and now.
I remember once, years ago, when hurrying from the train and having only a few minutes in which to catch a bus, I had at the same time to buy something necessary from the station kiosk. I came running towards the kiosk, saw there was a long queue there, and placed my fingers in the required position, repeating mentally “Let the queue spread, so I get to be first”. (I know it sounds selfish, but I really needed to buy the item and at the same time catch the bus.) Suddenly, those in the queue seemed to lose focus, some left it, some apparently decided they needed to buy something more and went to get it, and others just turned away slightly. I ran in, and was served first. This technique is really wonderfully helpful, when you’re in a rush or a critical situation.
The book contains chapters on solving people problems, health problems, money problems and complicated problems.
We are taught the invaluable tool of using subjective communication. This is communication between yourself and another party when in Alpha. You relax and imagine you see the person and hold a conversation with him/her in a loving way that suggests a solution to some mutual problem. This communication goes via the sender’s superconscious mind to the receiver’s conscious mind.
I have used subjective communication many times with success, and have also used it successfully when wanting a loan from my bank, which had previously been denied me (even though this was not a “mutual problem”),
You can use subjective communication with your spouse, children, parents, in-laws, employer, fellow workers, law enforcers or friends. Remember to communicate in a loving way.
We learn an important technique called the Glass of Water Technique, which can be used mostly for people problems.
What I have here presented are some of the basic precepts and techniques dealt with in the book. But it contains much, much more than these.
I highly recommend that you read the book, which is clearly and simply written and very readable. José includes several fascinating success stories from his own life and experience, and it is thus in no way a dull book.
September 6, 2011
I have the actual workbook from loredo, TX where my mother went and learned from jose himself. she then taught it to me at a young age
September 16, 2023
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Getting started with my first 20 days!
Good thing I came across this book on Kindle. I have been seeing ads about this Silva Method on Youtube for over a year. Now that I have the detailed steps on how to seek help from the other side in co-creating this wonderful life for everyone, I am ready! I recommend this to everyone who has intentions of creating abundance and peace for everyone and not only for themselves.
Getting started with my first 20 days!
Good thing I came across this book on Kindle. I have been seeing ads about this Silva Method on Youtube for over a year. Now that I have the detailed steps on how to seek help from the other side in co-creating this wonderful life for everyone, I am ready! I recommend this to everyone who has intentions of creating abundance and peace for everyone and not only for themselves.
July 1, 2019
The Silva method is best summed up as an amalgamation of spirituality, psychology, alternative healing, physics and metaphysics.
If you are into learning more about how to harness the power of the mind to break free from behavior patterns and mental attitudes that are holding you back, and achieve what you want, the Silva Method is the real deal - it is for everyone. It's not some "how to bend reality with the power of belief" self-help BS that's been saturating the market and annoying you with their ads on YouTube. It doesn't promise you the pie-in-the-sky for doing nothing besides keeping your thoughts positive; no such magical formula. You don't need to subscribe to any form of spiritual or religious belief. You actually need to put in the effort and practice the techniques taught in this book, and if you are willing to work at it, you can make the Silva Method work for you in any area of your life.
I was given this book by a Silva Mind Method instructor I interviewed for a magazine article I was writing in 2017; I didn't take the course (though I would like to someday and I think it would be ideal to). So, while I think reading the book and following the instructions is sufficient to learn the entire program - as it is so stated by the author and founder himself - I find some segments are not explained clearly enough. But then if you are able to to follow through on what the information and instructions, and practice them diligently, whatever solutions you seek will be available to you from the other side.
I started read it over a year ago, followed the step-by-step exercises, put it aside and got off track for a stretch of time, then got back to it and finally finished it - done all the exercises and reading the whole book. This is not a one-and-done read; if you are serious about making changes in your life using the Silva Method, you will want to go back to this book for reference as often as needed, as you put it into practice.
If you are into learning more about how to harness the power of the mind to break free from behavior patterns and mental attitudes that are holding you back, and achieve what you want, the Silva Method is the real deal - it is for everyone. It's not some "how to bend reality with the power of belief" self-help BS that's been saturating the market and annoying you with their ads on YouTube. It doesn't promise you the pie-in-the-sky for doing nothing besides keeping your thoughts positive; no such magical formula. You don't need to subscribe to any form of spiritual or religious belief. You actually need to put in the effort and practice the techniques taught in this book, and if you are willing to work at it, you can make the Silva Method work for you in any area of your life.
I was given this book by a Silva Mind Method instructor I interviewed for a magazine article I was writing in 2017; I didn't take the course (though I would like to someday and I think it would be ideal to). So, while I think reading the book and following the instructions is sufficient to learn the entire program - as it is so stated by the author and founder himself - I find some segments are not explained clearly enough. But then if you are able to to follow through on what the information and instructions, and practice them diligently, whatever solutions you seek will be available to you from the other side.
I started read it over a year ago, followed the step-by-step exercises, put it aside and got off track for a stretch of time, then got back to it and finally finished it - done all the exercises and reading the whole book. This is not a one-and-done read; if you are serious about making changes in your life using the Silva Method, you will want to go back to this book for reference as often as needed, as you put it into practice.
December 5, 2020
Amazing easy to apply in your life to see miracles manifest. Very grateful to have stumbled on this.
Amazing easy to apply in your life to see miracles manifest. Very grateful to have stumbled on this method of living a peaceful life.
Amazing easy to apply in your life to see miracles manifest. Very grateful to have stumbled on this method of living a peaceful life.
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August 20, 2018
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January 9, 2021
Wow
A great book which tells the step by step process on how to get help from the other side. It works very well
A great book which tells the step by step process on how to get help from the other side. It works very well
May 7, 2023
This book helped me change my life.
January 3, 2023
I thought the book is interesting although I don't think the Silva Mind Control Method is suitable for my personality. I read a lot about this method in the media in the past year and was interested to learn more about it. My understanding is that the purpose of this method is to calm your mind, be able to visualize and access your intuition in order to make better decisions. I tried some of the exercises recommended but they don't work for me. I prefer meditation, dance, art and other ways of accessing my intuition. Nevertheless, it must be a very useful method for some people.
January 12, 2023
This started off quite well, I agree that a positive attitude and picturing your goals in your head is a great way to live. Whether I can rewrite my own destiny by just picturing what I want in my mind is yet to be seen. If you see me sailing off into the sunset on my new speedboat then you know I finally made it onto Bullseye like I’ve always dreamed.
February 1, 2021
Cultist nonsense
I opened this book expecting a way to improve my memory skills and reading comprehension. Needless to say the first chapter started talking about God and everything else you associate with cultists. Not for me personally.
I opened this book expecting a way to improve my memory skills and reading comprehension. Needless to say the first chapter started talking about God and everything else you associate with cultists. Not for me personally.
June 27, 2021
One of the best! This book will be read over and over. It gives exact directions for getting what we need...getting things done...and improving our world. Great book. I'll use it as a reference the rest of my life.
June 2, 2022
Interesting ideas. I recall hearing something similar--perhaps the same techniques--from Brian Tracy.
September 28, 2022
I got the point pretty early on.
October 23, 2022
An interesting approach to meditation and visualisation practise.
November 28, 2022
Will practice these methods to discover if any effects are evident. 😲
February 8, 2024
I was very excited to start reading this book and worked through the 20 day mental exercises. Then was disappointed when the next chapter revealed that to progress further, you really need to have a teacher, guide, counselor and other students to work with. Basically, you really need to take the course.
August 13, 2023
Excellent. An essential course for a better life
This book is a must for anyone wishing to change their life in a positive way and realise their true potential. It is the answer to world peace, prosperity and spiritual fulfilment.
This book is a must for anyone wishing to change their life in a positive way and realise their true potential. It is the answer to world peace, prosperity and spiritual fulfilment.
November 2, 2024
I loved this book. It is very calming with tools that can help to better your life. It’s so relaxing that I find myself so relaxed that I easily fall asleep. This is a book I will read again and again.
June 16, 2023
Excellent book
It is life changing and eye opening. It creates so much positivity just by reading it. It's a must read for everyone.
It is life changing and eye opening. It creates so much positivity just by reading it. It's a must read for everyone.
September 8, 2023
The Silva mind control.
Very good. I like it and tried this method practice. It is really work. I tried to heal my husband. He has gallstones and I was surprised, pain has gone.
Very good. I like it and tried this method practice. It is really work. I tried to heal my husband. He has gallstones and I was surprised, pain has gone.
May 23, 2025
Interesante libro. Llegué a él por Robert B Stone quién trabajó con Silva. Actúa como manual por técnicas de relajación y visualización
February 8, 2025
Psychosis. Woo!
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